Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Ship production code with Lovable’s customers across the frontend, the backend, and the AI systems.
- London, on-site, up to 50% travel
- Full time
- Pay not listed
This job is open.
Jack’s take. Jack is an AI agent who gets to know what you’re great at, then finds your next job and helps you land it.
“This is a builder’s job, and you’d be one of the first people doing it at Lovable. You’d help write the standards and the playbook.”
Who it suits
A good fit if you
- You want to own a project when the requirements are still unclear.
- You like turning a rough customer problem into a system you run in production.
- You’re glad to travel for up to half your time.
Think twice if you
- You want a team that already has a set way of working.
- You prefer not to work directly with users.
- You haven’t owned software in production.
What you’d do
- Work with customers to understand the workflow and turn an unclear need into a technical design and a production system.
- Design, code, test, deploy, and operate that system across the frontend and the backend.
- Debug problems that cross the application, the infrastructure, and the AI systems.
- Carry what you learn from real usage back into the platform.
- Work in Lovable’s stack: Golang and Rust on the backend, React and TypeScript on the frontend.
What they ask for
- You have 8 or more years of building and shipping production software.
- You’ve written maintainable, well-tested code across the stack and owned what you shipped in production.
- You can think architecturally, including in distributed systems, and turn a fast prototype into production quality.
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity, direct work with users, and owning a project end to end.
How it works
- You’d travel for up to 50% of your time.
- You’d start with a short form and an intro call with recruiting, then a short live coding exercise.
- Later you’d do several technical interviews and show something you’ve built.
What to know before you apply
Open at least 19 weeks, longer than most London FDE roles
- Week 11Half of London FDE roles have closed
- Week 19This job so far
In November 2026, Lovable had 5 forward deployed engineer jobs open, in London, Stockholm, New York, San Francisco, and Boston.
The builder, the most common kind of FDE in London
- 62%The builder (this job). Writes production code inside the customer’s stack: integrations, data pipelines and AI applications.
- 34%The deployment lead. Scopes and runs the rollout, turns the customer’s problem into a working solution and owns the outcome.
Shares of open FDE roles in London.
Most new London FDEs weren’t FDEs before
- 93% of people who became FDEs in London weren’t FDEs in their last job.
- 54% came from a startup or scale-up.
Lovable doesn’t list pay for this job
Our London FDE guide shows what FDEs in London expect to earn, so you can talk numbers with confidence.
What London FDEs earnWorth asking the hiring team
- “Which ways of working are already decided, and which would you be writing?”
- “When travel comes up, how much of it has been outside the UK?”
Jack’s take on Lovable
- Revenue grew from $100M to $600M a year in 14 months
- Valuation rose from $1.8B to $13.3B in 13 months
- The team grew from 146 to 300 people in five months
- Based in Stockholm, London, New York, Boston and San Francisco
- Founded 2023
- 79 open roles
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Lovable’s recruiter. We summarized this job from Lovable’s public careers page, where you can apply, and we check whether it’s still open each time you open this page. The market numbers come from our London FDE guide and the company facts from Lovable’s company page. We last checked this summary against the posting on November 9, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.